| [WEEKLYSTANDARD] Fresh off a trip to India and Australia, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel addressed a group of Marines in San Diego, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Tuesday, and may have delivered a line that will show up in Republican campaign ads this election cycle. After updating the troops on some issues in the Pacific region and the Middle East, Hagel took questions from some of the Marines and gave a stark assessment of the global security situation: "The world is exploding all over." The remark came in response to a question about the B.O. regime's realignment of the military towards the Asia-Pacific theater. |